Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin here and we are joined

again by Adam Walsh.

He is the Natural Resource Manager for Sierra Nevada at the Mills River location.

We've been talking a lot this week and almost going a little bit up the scale, so to speak,

some composting stuff in the beginning of the week, we talked about mushrooms, orchard

management, and propagation, and now we are going to talk about some regenerative farming and

landscape practices, and what I notice here in our title is the word regenerative is in quotes.

Adam, so I'm curious, you know, is there something that you'd like to say, I suppose, about

that terminology?

Well, to me, this is just a new way of saying practicing good stewardship.

You've heard us talk a lot about composting and composting and building

soil biology and all that, and by definition that is what regenerative agriculture

is. You know, it's not trying to get as much

product off of an acre as possible in order to maximize profits, but it's kind of looking,

stepping back a little bit and taking a grand review and looking at, we want to make this soil

as healthy as possible, and we're going to put some resources into building this soil,

and in turn, that's going to help one create a better growing and more products in the future,

and two, it's going to help with offset some of our climate challenges that we're having right now,

and that's just a different wording for what I think many landowners already understand as

a strong stewardship, good stewardship ethic. If you're going out there and working on your

property and seeing what your property can do for you and just how much money can I get out

of my property, that's going to come back to you at some point or other. At some point you have

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